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A 3 page paper which compares and contrasts Ovid’s version of “The Story of Daedalus and Icarus” with Muriel Rukeyser’s “Waiting for Icarus.” No additional sources cited.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAovid6.rtf
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the desire, on the part of Daedalus, to somehow invent something great and be noted for such. In the poem Waiting for Icarus by Muriel Rukeyser it speaks of a
young woman, the lover of Icarus, waiting for his return. Each story/poem presents the reader with a different perspective of the legendary story. The following paper compares and contrasts the
speakers point of view. Icarus: Ovid and Rukeyser In Ovids story the speaker is somewhat objective and for the most part is simply telling the story. However, there
is the sense that the speaker is not incredibly fond of Daedalus as they state "Daedalus hated Crete/ And his long exile there" (Ovid 1-2). He was determined to seek
freedom in the air, but the speaker clearly illustrates how he used his son to conduct his experiment, not going himself. In Rukeysers poem the speaker is the presumed
lover of Icarus. She speaks with emotion and trepidation remembering their times together and remembering what he told her. She states, "I remember the girls laughing/ I remember they said
he only wanted to get away from me" (Rukeyser 14-15). Her perspective, this speakers perspective, is far more emotional and personally involved than Ovids. In Ovids there is also
the perspective that seems to be simply telling a story from a myth perspective in relationship to how the bird the partridge came into being. There is a sense that
the speaker is presenting a moral of sorts for the partridge comes into play when Daedalus, after the death of Icarus, is given his nephew to teach and he is
jealous of the nephew. He tries to kill the nephew but this nephew turns into a partridge and as such is a bird who never flies too high, which is
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